Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
France: After fractious French election, Catholic bishops try to heal a divided flock
(Joséphine Boone, Mélinée Le Priol and Juliette Paquier, La Croix International)
France: Éric Zemmour acquitted of Holocaust denial charge for saying French Nazi collaborator saved Jews
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
French churches study how to ensure safe and strong communities
(Conference of European Churches)
New book: Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy
(Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University Press)
Eritrea: Christians tortured in 'tin box' shipping containers 20 years after Eritrea's religious clampdown
(Sophie Drew, Premier Christian News)
Turkey: Protestant Christians in Turkey exposed to discrimination, deportations, hate speech
(Uzay Bulut, Providence Mag)
Goodbye, Judeo-Christian nation. Hello, interfaith America
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Victor "Skip" Conde full interview (on human rights and religious freedom)
(YouTube Video, Tina Ramirez, Hardwired Global)
Israel: A rabbi’s contentious quest for religious pluralism in Israel
(Patrick Kingsley, The New York Times)
Israel: A year after disaster, thousands flock to Israeli holy site
(Associated Press)
Egypt’s top mufti to weigh in on penalty for priest’s killer
(Samy Magdy, Associated Press)
Indonesian clerical body 'sorry' for false apostasy claims
(Katharina R. Lestari, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Indonesian police arrest 24 suspected militants in raids
(Mohammad Taufan, Associated Press)
$121.5M settlement in New Mexico clergy sex abuse scandal
(Associated Press)
Chicago archdiocese settles sex abuse suit for $1.2 million
(Associated Press)
WVa city council ordered to stop reciting The Lord’s Prayer
(Associated Press)
Catholic school in Mississippi Delta closing after 70 years
(Associated Press)
Taiwan’s president condemns California church shooting
(Associated Press)
In trying to seize Russian assets, the US is taking a page from Chabad
(Asaf Shalev, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
How Christian nationalism won Pennsylvania’s GOP primary
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
India: Beyond vaccinations, Shanti Ashram provides holistic help for vulnerable communities
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
India: ‘Textbook repeat’: India courts hear Hindu-relics-in-mosque pleas
(Bilal Kuchay, Al Jazeera)
India: Attack on shrine upsets Christians in southern India
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
In India, Hindu nationalists embolden challenges to atheism
(Varsha Torgalkar, Religion News Service)
Gore says climate crisis like ‘nature hike right through the Book of Revelation’
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
With Roe in peril, abortion rights advocates prepare appeals to religious liberty
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
North Korea: Archbishop, 97, says he thinks church is growing secretly in North Korea
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Episode 83: Deseret News religion reporter Kelsey Dallas on the importance of religious freedom (podcast)
(Sarah Jane Weaver, Church News)
China: Freedom of religion or belief – Special bimonthly FoRB newsletter (01-15.05.2022)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
A better sort of political philosophy?
(Paul Seaton, Law & Liberty)
Saudi religious moderation: World’s foremost publisher of Qur’ans has yet to get the message – analysis
(James M. Dorsey, Eurasia Review)
What everyone gets wrong about evangelicals and abortion
(Gillian Frank and Neil J. Young, The Washington Post)
Conservative Christians will regret overturning Roe. They’re sacrificing religious liberty to do it
(Sheila Briggs, Los Angeles Times)
Growing Haredi numbers poised to alter global Judaism. Maybe press should cover this?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Pro-abortion rights activists hit Catholic churches, but you probably didn't read about it
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
UK: RE suffers as Government starves it of funds, new review finds
(Hattie Williams, Church Times)
UK: Withholding religious divorce controlling and coercive behaviour: Moher
(Fouzia Azzouz, Law & Religion UK)
UK COVID-19 Inquiry: terms of reference consultation outcome
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Punta del Este, Uruguay, is one of South America’s ritziest resort cities. Its Jewish population has doubled during the pandemic.
(Juan Melamed, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Final communique and declaration on the common human values
(Muslim World League, Religions for Peace)
CAIR-MI welcomes EEOC finding of discrimination on behalf Muslim woman terminated seeking Ramadan accommodation
(Council on American-Islamic Relations)
Air Force Academy cadets face expulsion, repayment demand over vaccine refusal
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
#forSafeWorship
(United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC))
Join UNAOC in standing up #forSafeWorship
(Parliament of the World's Religions)
Setting the Cat amongst Pigeons: Kosovo’s application for membership of the Council of Europe
(Andrew Forde, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
What I’ve learned about the church’s response to migrants by seeing them face to face
(Alan Cross, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission)
Does the First Amendment bar public schools from removing library books based on their viewpoints? The Supreme Court split on this 4-4 in 1982, and the matter remains unsettled
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Some unsolicited advice on abortion and the religion clauses
(Josh Blackman, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Ghana: Religious leaders call for tightened security amid terror threat
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Kenya: “Don’t vote for politicians just because they call themselves Catholic,” Fr Babendreier Counsels
(Paschal Norbert, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Singapore denies entry to Muslim 'hate' preacher
(Katharina R. Lestari, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Timor-Leste govt, bishops renew Church funding deal
(Ryan Dagur, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Syria: Al-Hol: Displacement crisis is a tinderbox that could ignite ISIS 2.0
(Mona Yacoubian, The United States Institute of Peace)
U.S.-Organization of Islamic Cooperation strategic dialogue
(U.S. Department of State)
Hundreds of Jews rally at the U.S. Capitol for abortion rights
(Michelle Boorstein and Ellie Silverman, The Washington Post)
Gambia: Book on role of religion in national security launched
(Lobbeh Jallow, All Africa)
Satanic Temple can’t raise flag at Boston City Hall as program is suspended following Supreme Court ruling that city violated free speech rights
(Heather Morrison, Mass Live)
Supreme Court to weigh Christian web designer’s free speech argument against anti-discrimination law
(Alex Swoyer, The Washington Times)
Australia: Faith, politics and Australia’s ‘run of religious PMs’
(Jordan Baker, James Massola and Matthew Knott, The Sydney Morning Herald)
The Head of the UGCC and the Prime Minister of Ukraine agree to cooperate to support those in need
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Why it’s so difficult to figure out what the Vatican thinks about Ukraine
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Moscow church devises fanciful explanation for Ukraine war
(RISU, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Vatican minister visits Ukraine as pope toes delicate line
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Ukrainian parliament will respond to Moscow church's outrageous charges
(RISU, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Patriarch Kirill proposes stripping private clinics of right to receive female patients for abortions
(Interfax-Religion)
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
ELECTION, 17 May 2021 (16:30 Nairobi): 2022 Notice of Candidates
(African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ACLARS))
VIRTUAL EVENT, 17 May 2022: 5th European Laudato Si’ Reflection Day
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))
Monday, 16 May 2022
Ukrainian monastery supports front line soldiers
(Deutsche Welle)
Russian experts record more than 70 attacks on churches of UOC by the Ukrainian side
(Interfax-Religion)
UOC-MP is unlikely to survive in prewar formats, - Cyril Hovorun
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
NSDC should ban the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine, - Yuriy Chornomorets
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Russia: Freedom of religion or belief – Special Bimonthly FORB Digest (01–15.05.2022)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Burkina Faso: armed Islamists kill, rape civilians
(Human Rights Watch)
Russian religious communities opposed to Ukraine war face pressure and censorship
(Victoria Arnold, Religion Unplugged)
‘No politics here’: The many faiths in Poland responding to the refugee crisis
(Kyle Dunphey, Deseret News)
Brazil’s Catholic bishops raise their voices against mining on Indigenous land
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Religion News Service)
Brazil: Muslim sheikh and Catholic priest join forces for São Paulo’s homeless
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
EVENT, 16 May 2022 (6PM ET): How Catholics Became American: 2022 Annual Penn Club Reception
(Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture)
If budgets are moral documents, what does the US budget say about ours?
(Bridget Moix, Religion News Service)
Lufthansa CEO apologizes for 'antisemitism' on his airline
(The Jerusalem Post)
Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, WCC deputy general secretary, featured in African Catholic Voices podcast
(World Council of Churches)
African women church leaders to gather at WCC for dynamic dialogue
(World Council of Churches)
From Charleston to Pittsburgh to Buffalo, their blood cries out: Buffalo reminds us: Jews and Blacks are allies.
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism)
What you need to know about the antisemitic ideology behind the Buffalo shooting
(Philissa Cramer and Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
'I wish all Jews to hell' — Buffalo shooter was a fascist white supremacist
(Michael Starr, The Jerusalem Post)
Black and Asian organizations gather together in "Faith Walk" in New York's Chinatown
(Alexandra Jane, The Root)
Churches are invited to commemorate refugees who died at the European borders
(Conference of European Churches)
Indian court bans large Muslim gathering at mosque after Hindu idols found
(The News International)
Indian authorities demand pastors cease religious activities
(International Christian Concern)
India: Christian leaders urge Governor not to give assent to anti-conversion Ordinance
(The Hindu)
Indian Christians smell political game behind anti-conversion move
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia - 17 May 2022
(Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)
Authorities: Hate against Taiwanese led to church attack
(Amy Taxin, Ken Ritter and Deepa Bharath, Associated Press)
China: Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world
(Huizhong Wu and Dake Kang, Associated Press)
Buddhist chaplains on the rise in US, offering broad appeal
(Gosia Wozniacka, Associated Press)
US report details church-state collusion on Native schools
(Peter Smith, Associated Press)
4 Air Force cadets may not graduate due to vaccine refusal
(Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press)
Articles of interest - 16 May 2022
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Space Force captain with religious objections to vaccine mandate is denied injunction
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Catholic doctrine has always rejected abortion: But what about Catholics in pews today?
(Ryan Burge, GetReligion)
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